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Barbara Hauptman Sally Gaskill Carly Rush AAAE June 1, 2012

Barbara Hauptman Sally Gaskill Carly Rush AAAE June 1, 2012. What is SNAAP?. Strategic National Arts Alumni Project On-line annual survey of arts graduates Investigate educational experiences and career paths

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Barbara Hauptman Sally Gaskill Carly Rush AAAE June 1, 2012

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  1. Barbara Hauptman • Sally Gaskill • Carly Rush • AAAE • June 1, 2012

  2. What is SNAAP? • Strategic National Arts Alumni Project • On-line annual survey of arts graduates • Investigate educational experiences and career paths • Provide findings to educators and policymakers to improve arts training, inform cultural policy, and support artists.

  3. Leadership • National Advisory Board • Barbara Hauptman, Member • Indiana University Center for Postsecondary Research • Sally Gaskill, SNAAP Associate Director • Vanderbilt University Curb Center for Art, Enterprise, and Public Policy • Steven J. Tepper, SNAAP Senior Scholar • Carly Rush, Project Associate

  4. Funding • Surdna Foundation: $2.5 million • National Endowment for the Arts – total $280,000 4 consecutive leadership grants • 4 Regional foundations – total $1.5 million • Total Support to Date: $4 million

  5. Who is Surveyed? • Individuals with degrees in the arts (undergrad and grad, plus arts high schools) • All arts disciplines including arts administration • 250 institutions to date have participated

  6. What Questions Do We Ask? • Formal education and degrees • Institutional experience and satisfaction • Postgraduate resources for artists • Career • Arts engagement • Income and debt • Demographics

  7. SNAAP 2011 • Fall 2011 survey • First fee-paying cycle (fees range from $1,300 - $7,800) • 36,000 respondents from 66 institutions

  8. Some major findings.

  9. Wherefore Art Thou? • Mostrespondents who want to work, are working • In 2011: 4% unemployed and looking for work • Identical to national rate for college graduates

  10. Wherefore Art Thou? • 72% of respondents have ever worked as professional artists • 51% currently work as professional artists

  11. Satisfaction with Employment • Most arts alumni are satisfied with their jobs • 87% of respondents are satisfied with the job in which they spend the majority of their time

  12. Percent of All Arts Graduates Satisfied with Aspects of Primary Job…

  13. Relevance? = • 62% of those who work outside the arts say their arts training has relevance to their job

  14. Satisfaction with Education • Most arts graduates are happy with their arts education. • 92% rate their education good or good or excellent

  15. Arts Administration majors (2011 data) • Unemployed and looking for work: 4% • Closeness of 1st job to training: • 78% closely or somewhat related • 22% not related All disciplines: • 75% say 1st job closely or somewhat related

  16. Arts administration majors • 96% have supported the arts in the last 12 months (volunteering, donating) • 53% make art in their personal time

  17. Working Arts Administrators Alumni “working (either full- or part-time) managing or administering programs or people for an arts or arts- related organization or business” N= 4,944

  18. Majors

  19. Income

  20. Income • US 2010 Median Income=$29,730 • US 2010 Median Income w/ Bachelor’s= $43,143 • Arts Administration Median Income= between $40,001 and $50,000

  21. The Wage Gap

  22. Self-Employment • Over 80% of arts administrators have been self-employed at one point in their lives. All Alumni: 75%

  23. AvocationalArt • 75.8% of arts administrators make or perform their own art in their personal time. All Alumni: 72.4%

  24. “How often do you make or perform art in your personal time?” • 60% of those individuals who make perform their art in their personal time do so several times a week or more. All Alumni: 57%

  25. Job Satisfaction • Primary Occupation: Arts Administration • Job spent most of time in • N= 1,157

  26. Overall Job Satisfaction • 90% are either somewhat or very satisfied with their jobs as arts administrators overall. All Alumni: 80.1%

  27. Income Satisfaction • 58% are satisfied with their income as arts administrators. All Alumni: 60%

  28. Balance between Work andNon-Work Life • 71% are somewhat or very satisfied with the balance between their work and non-work lives. All Alumni: 69.5%

  29. Opportunities to be Creative • 84% of are either somewhat or very satisfied with the opportunities to be creative in their jobs as arts administrators. All Alumni: 75.5%

  30. Relevance of Arts Training • 96% of alumni say their arts training is relevant to their current careers as arts administrators.

  31. http://snaap.indiana.edu/snaapshot/

  32. Strategic National Arts Alumni Project Indiana University Center for Postsecondary Research Sally Gaskill 812-856-5824 gaskill@indiana.edu snaap.indiana.edu

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